You are not big enough to accuse the whole age effectively, but let us say you are in dissent. You are in no position to issue commands, but you can speak words of hope. Shall this be the substance of your message? Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God. --Thomas Merton

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The 2008 Year in Review

Last year I did a "Best of 2007" for Experimental Theology for which my friends laughed at me for being the sole judge of my own best posts. So, this year something less ego-centric. A simple 2008 Year in Review.

1. The Theology of Peanuts2008 began with my online book The Theology of Peanuts. This was quite a project as I inserted illustrative Peanuts strips into the text of each essay. Being a big fan of the whole Peanuts gang this was a fun project to start the year off with.

3. Tracy Witham'sInto the World.During the summer months while I was in Germany I was very pleased to host Tracy Witham's online book Into the World. Tracy now hosts that book, along with other posts, on his blog Metaponderance.

5. The Omega Point (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)Not for the faint of heart, you have to think really hard to wrap your head around the Omega Point series. Inspired by the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in the Omega Point series I try to integrate consciousness, theology, evolution, and physics.

6. The Psychology of Christian Art (Part 1, Interlude, Part 2, and Part 3)I did a lot of posts about art this year. This series asks the question: Why is so much of Christian art so bad? To answer that question we venture into theology and existentialism and some of my recent laboratory research.

8. PostSecret (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)PostSecret is an online and publishing sensation where people anonymously share secrets they have never before disclosed. This series summarizes research I did with some of my students into the PostSecret phenomenon. A fun point of the series was that Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret, commented on a couple of the posts.